Excerpts from an interview with Alice Smith Risby conducted on 05 April 2007 by John Egerton as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Risby, wife of Reverend Kelly Miller Smith, Sr., discusses her daughter's...
Excerpts from an interview with civil rights activists Bernard LaFayette, Jr., James Bevel and Ernest Rip Patton conducted on 17 January 2003 by Kathryn G. Bennett. In the excerpts Rev. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. discusses his decision as a young man...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville business and civic leader Kenneth L. Roberts, conducted on 27 July 2006 by Cabot Pyle as part of the Nashville Public Library's Nashville Business Leaders Oral History Project: The Turner...
An excerpt from an interview with Ken Miller, conducted on June 12, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Miller discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...
Excerpt from an oral history interview with Hugh Miller, conducted on March 11, 2011 by Bradley Aders as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. Hugh Miller, resident manager of the River Plantation condo complex in Bellevue, describes the...
First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, was organized in the 1840's when African American members of the First Baptist Church decided to start their own separate church under the leadership of Pastor Nelson Merry. The first meeting house, erected in...
A photograph of Mrs. Miller G. Kimbrough, chairman for the Fannie Battle Day Home Christmas Eve carol choirs, seen with her son, Miller, Jr., who is having "visions of sugar plums" as his mother reads "The Night Before Christmas." This photograph...
A photograph of A. Z. Kelley and some of the legal team from Kelley v. Board of Education of Nashville in September 1955. Following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the Supreme Court issued Brown II, ordering that schools to desegregate...
A photograph of the Senior Class of the 1934 Y.M.C.A. Night Law School of Nashville, Tennessee. The law school operated over many decades at Nashville's Downtown Y.M.C.A. (226 7th Avenue North) from circa 1911 until 1986. It was opened by recent...
A photograph of the Tennessee Press Association at the meeting held at Jackson, Tennessee in 1893. A few of the attendees are identified in a 1970 typescript letter by Donald Miller, a retired priest of the Episcopal Church who is pictured in this...
A portrait photograph of Major John J. McCann, a Confederate Army veteran of the American Civil War, who became a prominent merchant miller based in Nashville, Tennessee during the post-war era. McCann, a Democrat, was born in Davidson County,...
29; Middle; 42; 10.0x20.0; *Can't find this deed, but according to the Plat book this lot is owned by a J. W. Jennings.; Adams, Lucy 1835-1858; Adams, Nathan J. 1830-1856; Jennings, J. K. P. 1844-1847; Jennings, J. wm. H. 1851-1873; Jennings, Marie...
11; West; 28; 20.0x40.0; 232; I; 10/00/1843; Bell, Mrs. Mary Miller 1837-1873; Conlan, Catherine A. 1817-1855; Conlan, Joseph W. 1815-1852; Gallr, Jospeh G.; Faltz, Catherine 1820-1847; Miller, Capt. Joseph 1791-1846; Walton, Robert J. 1833-1852
10.0x30.0; 211; III; 02/25/1864; 296; III; 11/01/1865; Can't find this lot--somewhere on the north side of Plum--near William Francis's lot--79' east of Maple.